Nursery Supplement Newsletter #2 Nursery 1 Possums

Nursery Supplement Newsletter #2
Nursery 1 Possums
Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun in the Possums class.
We have finished our inquiry of “My Friends, My Family”, and are now exploring “People Who Help
Us”.
We first looked at the role of a Doctor and Nurse, and how they help us when we are sick. We made
Nurse hats, Doctors bags, helped our baby dolls feel better by putting bandaids on them, and painting
bandages on a paper teddy bear. We also talked about being gentle with our friends, and keeping our
hands to ourselves (no hitting, pushing etc). We also painted a cardboard box with white paint to make
an ambulance. The children love using the box during free play – they fill it up with blankets and dolls
and push it around the room, taking the dolls to the hospital. We also had a visit from our school
Nurse, Ms Rini, who took our height measurements and weight.
Photo : Nurse Rini with Cheetah, Nurse Enzo, and ChaCha putting bandaids on her doll
Our next people who help us in the community are fire fighters. We looked at how they help us put out
fires with a big hose, and how they wear special protective clothing which helps them to rescue
people. We made fire truck pictures using different coloured shapes, painted flames using HOT colours
(red and yellow), and made a fire truck from a cardboard box. We added a ladder, wheels, and sirens.
The children love putting the firefighter hats on and using the hose to put out “fires” around the
classroom. We have also been using our emergency vehicles in the construction area.
Photo: Leena and her fire truck made of shapes, & Christopher painting flames
We have also been enjoying a lot of sensory and creative experiences in the Possums classroom – sand
play, water play, sorting different textured objects, washing dolls & play dough. The children are also
developing their large muscles during PMP each Friday, and are also developing their confidence when
completing activities and trying new things.
Photo: Finlay jumping on the trampoline during PMP
A reminder that the weekly plan will be displayed on
Sycamore each week. Also check the Possums class on
Sycamore each day for a brief description of what we enjoyed
during our day at school.
Miss Sheridan
sheridan@australian-isb.com
What a fantastic journey “Our Community” has taken us
on here in N1 Platypus! We have investigated a Dr’s bag,
and created our own. We have bandaged up our babies
and teddy bears, and even tried some plasters on
ourselves! Even though we don’t really fancy
vaccinations, we did enjoy role playing with them in the
Dr’s kit, especially giving them to Ms Carlie & Miss Ploy!
Firefighters
were also
interesting
for us, we
loved
dressing up in firefighting hats, and using our fire
station. Painting fire was also fun, and making fire lava
bottles was exciting too.
We have
moved on
from
community
workers into
a world of colour! We are very interested in mixing
colours, collaging colours and making colourful water.
We have been colour sorting, and matching and reading
all about colours! We are now looking at the colours in
our class, and will explore the ocean and its colours.
Printing is also a favourite in N1 Platypus, we have
enjoyed printing with our hands, and with cars, and with
fly squatters! Printing is just such fun!
We welcome two new students, Isaac & Isabel Saw, we look forward to becoming friends and
growing with you!
Ms Carlie, Miss Ploy & P’Sao
Nursery 2 Cockatoos
Bubbles Bubbles everywhere!
We have been investigating bubbles in our water play.
We have been learning how to make bubbles by
blowing through a hole in a bubble wand or by
splashing our hands in the water tray. We have
discovered that bubbles are round, and are rainbow
coloured. We have watched them float on the water
and in the air. We have tried to catch them in our
hands but when we do we like to pop them. We all
enjoyed playing with bubbles in our water play
session on Friday. We all love making bubbles.
We have been busy exploring mark making using our hands and other tools. We have practiced making all different
times of marks, dots, circles, straight lines, wavy lines etc. on large pieces of paper. We all enjoyed making marks
on our paper with wax crayons and then painting over it with a bright coloured wash. We could still see our
different coloured marks through the wash.
We made lots of marks and prints in our play dough using different tools. Then we discovered we could make holes
in our play dough too. We found that we could look through the holes we had made. Then we started to look for
other things in our classroom that had holes. We found lots of things. We will continue investigating holes this
week. We all looked outside our classroom and found many different holes. We tried to find out why they were
there. You can help us to find holes at home too!
Nursery 2 Tasmanian Devils
Ms Kate kate@australian-isb.com - Ms Muk -
September 2012
We have had some very excited and proud 3 year olds this month. A big happy birthday for Sanaa, Anek,
Nesia , Ilona and Ananda. We had lots of fun singing the Happy Birthday song and watching some different
Youtube videos on the computer.
The children are now becoming very familiar with the classroom as well the outside play area and
important parts to the school such as the dining room, music room and PMP room and the all important
pick up area.
This month has seen the children really grow in their interests and also their creativity. Following on from
our Special you, Special me starting point of the year, we have worked both collaboratively to create
artwork and independently. The baby jigsaws have produced lots of colour and design of babies while the
baby rattles were created by using paint with paint brushes and then sticking on baby accessories. To
further develop our gluing skills, the baby blanket was completed with many students working together to
paint with foam rollers and then again sticking lots of different baby accessories onto it to create the
finished blanket. During our first month the children had really enjoyed using paint to create hand prints.
With this in mind the children used plaster of Paris to create a hand print and display it in a handprinted
frame! They look fabulous. Towards the end of the month, we have used cars to make marks on the
paper with paint and also finger painting.
During our circle time we have been exploring many songs and interesting
images. Songs included Hush little Baby, Miss Molly, Old Macdonald,
Splish Splash, Open them, Shut Them and If you’re happy and you know it.
The children love to get involved and are enjoying doing the actions to
some of the songs. We have also had a look at pictures of animals and
their babies and played some memory and matching games. With the
fascination with animals really developing through the animals in the
classroom and the activities, we have also watched animals on youtube
and the noises that they make as well as a chick being born and a fun one
with jazz being played to cows!!
Nursery 2 Rosellas
Ms Angela (angela@australia-isb.com) - Ms Karrell - P’Ede
Welcome to N2 Rosellas.
We would like to welcome Ms Karrell as our new Teacher Assistant. Ms Karrell has visited our class on a number
of occasions in the past few weeks and the children responded well to her outgoing personality. We were happy
to learn that Ms Karrell will be the ongoing Teacher Assistant in the Rosella Class from now on. We also had a
visit from Mr Greg. The children had a lovely time and we hope he can come to visit again.
We have now completed our Special me, Special you inquiry. During this time I have had the opportunity to
make observations of the children’s interests as they explore the classroom. As you can see by the photos the
children are very busy during their school day. We certainly do have a group of little explorers in our class.
Many of the children have been experimenting with different types of prints using different materials and
equipment. Based on these observations I will extend these interests and we will be exploring prints, shapes and
colour. We will be focusing on outcomes from the Australian Early Years Learning Framework using an active
learning approach to extend and develop children’s skills and understandings
The children using different tools and materials to make prints
Our Little Engineers
Thai Time
Busy in our Home Corner
Making Friends
Recycle Items
Thank you to the families who are sending recycle items from home. They will come in very handy in the coming
weeks. We would like to focus on recycle cardboard at the moment. Cylinders, cereal boxes, tea boxes, shoe
boxes, tissue boxes. etc.
Kind regards
Angela
angela@australia-isb.com